- Israel: Pol threatens to revoke filmmakers’ citizenship over Gaza film
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has said that he will move to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their documentary on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, NAZA, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In an X post on Sunday, Zohar called the documentary ‘vile’ and its win at the film festival ‘shocking’. He accused the filmmakers of harming the country ‘just to get applause from antisemites around the world’. The minister said that Abraham and Szor’s actions ‘constitute treason against the state’. … The 80-minute film documented Israel’s use of AI-powered systems to commit ‘calculated mass killings’ of Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Venice Film Festival’s official synopsis. The documentary received a 25-minute standing ovation at its premiere during the film festival.” (09/14/26)
- Yemen: Houthis Seize More Key Islands in Southern Red Sea
Source: US News & World Report
“Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels [sic] captured more strategic islands in the southern Red Sea, government and Houthi officials said Monday, strengthening their control of a major maritime shipping route. The capture of the islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish came as [Saudi puppet regime] forces attempted to rally over the weekend and fight back after the rebels’ [sic] swift advances around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz. The Houthis’ new gains further enable them to threaten Saudi crude oil shipments, which have used the Red Sea as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has been attacking shipping.” (09/14/26)
- Canada: Carney eyes “unique alliance” with EU as trade war with US intensifies
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Prime Minister Mark Carney has said Canada is seeking a ‘unique alliance’ with the European Union (EU) but not membership of the bloc, as its trade war with the US intensifies. … the Wall Street Journal reported that EU officials were open to a suggestion from Carney that Canada could become an ‘associate member’ of the bloc, according to officials from both sides. Carney instructed his special envoy to Europe to ‘scope out the most ambitious possibilities short of full membership’, the paper reported. … Since taking office, Carney has promoted a strategy aimed at creating a ‘more independent, more resilient economy’, in the wake of increasingly hostile policy towards his country from the Trump administration.” (09/14/26)
- Russian drone hits train near Ukraine-Poland border soon after visiting dignitaries passed through
Source: Associated Press
“A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukraine- Poland border on Sunday shortly after senior visiting officials — including the former prime ministers of the U.K. and Sweden — passed through, Ukraine’s state rail operator said. According to Ukrzaliznytsia, a diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and security advisers from several European Union states had purposely left the station at Yahodyn ahead of schedule. The visitors were on their way back from a security conference in Kyiv. ‘It is highly probable that the Russian drone ’s intended target was in fact the diplomatic train, which had departed the station earlier than scheduled,’ the company said in a Telegram post.” (09/13/26)
- Talks between Iranian, Gulf regimes on Strait of Hormuz postponed
Source: Yahoo! News
“Talks between Iran and several Gulf states on the disputed Strait of Hormuz have been postponed, Oman said on Sunday. Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi said Monday’s meeting had been postponed ‘in the interest of consensus.’ ‘We remain committed to fostering dialogue that supports stability and lasting cooperation in our region,’ he wrote on X. He did not announce a new date or elaborate on the reason for the postponement. … Tehran and Muscat have been negotiating for weeks on a mechanism to regulate shipping traffic through the strait, a key waterway for the global oil, gas and fertilizer trade. For Iran’s leadership, the Strait of Hormuz has become an important means of leverage in its conflict with the United States.” (09/13/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/talks-between-iran-gulf-states-233336982.html
- PA: Woman dies from measles complications, state’s third death this year
Source: NBC News
“A 40-year-old woman has died from measles complications in Pennsylvania, marking the state’s third measles-associated death this year as the U.S. experiences its worst resurgence of the highly contagious disease in 35 years. The woman, a Jefferson County resident, died Saturday, county Coroner Greg Furlong said on Facebook. … At least 676 measles cases have been confirmed in 37 counties in Pennsylvania so far this year, the state’s health officials reported Friday. The outbreak has hospitalized 124 people in the state. Of the confirmed cases, fewer than 1% had been fully vaccinated, Pennsylvania health officials said.” (09/13/260
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/pennsylvania-woman-dies-measles-rcna597490
- Indonesia: Six dead, 130 missing after ferry sinks in Java Sea
Source: ABC News [Australian state media]
“Indonesian rescuers say about 130 passengers and crew are missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people sank in bad weather in the Java Sea. At least 113 people were rescued, and the bodies of six passengers were recovered as the search operation expanded in waters around the vessel’s last known position. The Indonesian passenger ship carrying 243 people was reported missing after losing contact early on Sunday during bad weather. … Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands, relies heavily on ferries as a key mode of transportation, with sea routes more affordable and readily available than air travel. However, safety standards are not always rigorously enforced, resulting in a relatively high accident rate.” (09/13/26)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-13/search-underway-for-indonesian-passenger-ship/107148298
- Judge boots Trump ‘loyalty’ question from civil service job applications
Source: Washington Times
“A federal judge issued a stay forbidding the administration from asking those seeking jobs in the federal government to say how they would help carry out presidential executive orders, in what some saw as a test of ‘loyalty’ to President Trump. U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr., a Clinton appointee to the court in Massachusetts, sided with labor unions that argued asking the question was an unconstitutional politicization of federal jobs. The question, the third in a series of four essay questions, was added to the hiring process last year in response to a Trump executive order. It asked applicants to say how they would advance such orders and to name one or two in particular. ‘The plaintiffs are likely to succeed in showing that Question Three is neither related to an important government interest nor narrowly tailored to promote that interest,’ the judge wrote.” (09/12/26)
- Canada: Boycott of US products pushes grocers to adapt, explore new supply sources
Source: Reuters
“A growing consumer push to buy Canadian and boycott U.S. products is reshaping supermarket shelves in Canada, forcing grocers to improve country-of-origin labeling and secure new sources of supply. In Ontario, the president of independent grocer Vince’s Market, Giancarlo Trimarchi, turned to Facebook to show customers that most produce on the shelves of his stores is Canadian after receiving angry emails and comments about the grocer stocking U.S. produce. A bitter trade war between the United States and Canada has made consumers more conscious of where their dollars go. ‘Buy Canadian’ movements started last year after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian goods. They have intensified in recent weeks after trade talks broke down and Trump signed an executive order to change the name of to Lake America.” (09/12/26)
- Ireland: Trump predicts British occupation of the Six Counties will end “eventually”
Source: The Hill
“President Trump on Saturday expressed optimism about the reunification of Ireland during a meeting with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Dublin. The president, who is visiting his Irish golf course this weekend for a major golf tournament, said he would ‘love’ to see the joining of the Republic of Ireland and the [UK-occupied Six Counties]. … Previous U.S. presidents have typically avoided directly commenting on this contentious issue.” (09/12/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6085955-trump-ireland-reunification-comments/
- TN: Board votes to rename Nashville International Airport for Dolly Parton
Source: NBC News
“Nashville’s airport authority board unanimously voted Friday to begin the process to rename the city’s airport to honor late country music legend and Tennessee icon Dolly Parton. The vote by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority did not establish a new name for Nashville International Airport, but it begins the process, the board said in a statement. … Parton, beloved by country music fans around the world, died last month at the age of 80 after a brief battle with cancer, her family said on Aug. 25. … Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee thanked the airport authority board for its action Friday and called the vote an ‘important step to honor her remarkable legacy.'” (09/11/26)
- Turkey: Regime thugs abduct dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Police in Turkey have [abducted] 47 people in a series of raids on gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ+ activists, officials say. Raids took place in 12 provinces over the weekend as part of a campaign dubbed ‘My Family is Safe’ that the Turkish government says has been designed to protect family values. One of the targets of the operation was LGBTQ+ association Kaos GL. Same-sex marriage is not recognised in Turkey, with growing pressure on gay couples. Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using the campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community. Officers detained 26 people and seized drugs, digital equipment, smuggled alcohol and a firearm during the raids, according to the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office.” (09/13/26)
- France: Train derailment injures 44; police suspect sabotage
Source: CBS News
“Authorities suspect sabotage caused a train derailment in northwestern France that injured 44 people after a piece of rail was found on the track. The regional train was carrying 186 passengers from Rouen to Caen when it derailed Friday evening in Cleon. One carriage tipped onto its side while four others left the tracks. … A spokeswoman for the French national police communications service, known as SICOP, told The Associated Press the piece of rail found on the track was ‘probably’ linked to the derailment. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she wasn’t authorized to be publicly named in line with police policy.” (09/12/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-normandy-train-derailment-sabotage/
- FL: Ron DeSantis tries to make Lindsey Clancy mistrial all about Ron DeSantis
Source: New York Post
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday offered the lone holdout juror of the Lindsay Clancy case ‘asylum’ after a report alleged that the juror had faced domestic violence accusations in the past. … DeSantis said the report was an attempt at damaging the reputation of the man, who has not identified himself but who others on the jury said is black and in his 30s. ‘A man objected to allowing a woman to kill her three young kids and get away with it, so NBC is trying to smear that juror, whose identity should be protected. Another low for legacy media,’ DeSantis wrote on X in response to the NBC10 report. ‘If the juror is being harassed, Florida will provide asylum — I’m sure he’d be welcomed and appreciated.’” (09/12/26)
- David Cobb, 1962-2026
Source: Independent Political Report
“David Keith Cobb, a longtime organizer within the Green Party of the United States who helped the party secure federal recognition as a national committee before going on to become its 2004 presidential nominee, died Monday at the age of 63. The national Green Party announced Cobb’s passing this week, confirming that he died on Labor Day. … The Green Party nominated Cobb for president at its 2004 national convention, with Maine activist Pat LaMarche selected as his running mate.” [editor’s note: I was a few feet away when Cobb and 2004 Libertarian presidential nominee Michael Badnarik got arrested together while attempting to serve a lawsuit to Presidential Debate Commission in St. Louis; he was an opponent, but not an enemy – TLK] (09/11/26)
- Sweden: Party blocs tied after Sunday vote, projections say
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Sweden’s general election remains too close to call, early results suggest.
With 50% of the votes counted, the two main blocs were separated by only 20,000 votes, Sweden public broadvasteer SVT said. Exit polls had given the left-wing political bloc led by Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson a small lead over the rival four-party coalition put together by current conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Kristersson has been supported in government by the hard-right Sweden Democrats (SD), which have neo-Nazi roots. He has promised cabinet jobs for the SD if he stays in charge, but partial results suggest the party was losing support for the first time since 2010 when it entered parliament. Sweden has two major political blocs featuring four parties on the right and four on the left – meaning coalition and minority governments are relatively common.” (09/13/26) - Guatemala: Judge clears deputy minister, three leaders of terrorism charges
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A Guatemalan court has cleared a deputy minister and three other Indigenous leaders of terrorism charges, brought over their role in leading protests against a prosecutor accused of trying to block President Bernardo Arevalo from taking office. The Third Criminal Court judge, Mynor Moto, dismissed the case on Friday at the request of prosecutors, who concluded after their own investigation that the four had not broken any laws by organising the protests in October 2023.” (09/12/26)
- Johnson rejects AI moratorium
Source: Fox News
“House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., rejected an emergency moratorium on artificial intelligence development Sunday during CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ warning that slowing American innovation could allow China to pull ahead as tech executives and lawmakers intensify calls for new AI safety measures. ‘We have to resist Congress jumping in and imposing some sort of emergency moratorium,’ Johnson said. ‘Here’s what I’m proposing: I think the leaders and providers of these platforms need to come together in a meeting with us and figure out what the right balance is. We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us.’ … Humans First, a grassroots conservative [sic] movement against new data centers, is pushing a policy framework that opposes blanket data-center moratoriums while calling for local control and rejecting eminent domain for projects.” (09/13/26)
- Federal court rejects Trump’s order to keep Michigan coal plant open
Source: United Press International
“A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against a Trump administration order that forced a coal plant in Michigan to stay open beyond its scheduled closure. The J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive was slated to close in May 2025, but has remained open under an emergency order by Secretary Chris Wright’s Energy Department. … The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled the government’s actions went beyond its authority. … The lawsuit was filed by the states of Michigan and Illinois and a number of environmental groups.” (09/11/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/11/court-coal-trump/7371789160328/
- Judge halts Trump-backed data center on government-controlled land
Source: SFGate
“A federal judge sided with the Sierra Club and other groups Sept. 1 to halt a controversial data center project outside Boulder City, Nevada, southeast of Las Vegas. Backed by the Trump administration, the project had come from Townsite Solar 2 LLC, a Houston-based company that had previously received approval for a solar farm in the same location. The legal setback marks a high-profile failure for what would have been the first data center on federal land. Though both the Trump administration and the tech industry seek to build more data centers to support generative artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT, public sentiment has largely turned against them, particularly in areas plagued by drought, and where people worry about rising energy bills and access to public land.” (09/11/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/trump-data-center-nevada-22424179.php
- The New Majority Makers
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen“‘My name is Randy Villegas, and I’m for Medicare for All.’ That was how Villegas, a 31-year-old Democratic candidate for Congress, opened a health care town hall in late August for close to 100 residents, most of them Latino. He was speaking at Salon Juarez, a dance hall that hosts quinceañeras and weddings in a historic section of Bakersfield known as Old Town Kern. Preceding him on stage was Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), the progressive House member who is flirting with filling the left lane in the 2028 presidential race. Sandy Reding, a president of the California Nurses Association (CNA), one of America’s most left-wing unions, spoke before Khanna. The Working Families Party, which supports progressive populists across the country, had a table along one side. You wouldn’t know that this is one of America’s most hotly contested swing seats.” (09/14/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/09/14/oct-2026-the-new-majority-makers/
- Medicine Has Forgotten How to Touch the Patient
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon“When was the last time your doctor actually examined you? I do not mean when someone checked your blood pressure, copied your medication list, looked at your laboratory results, or listened briefly through a shirt before returning to the computer. I mean examined you. Looked at you. Watched you breathe. Felt your pulse. Looked at your eyes. Examined your neck. Listened carefully to your heart and lungs. Palpated your abdomen. Watched you walk. Noticed the color of your skin, the movement of your hands, the expression on your face, and the thousand other small pieces of information that a human body offers to someone who has learned how to observe it. For most of the history of medicine, this was not an optional ritual performed before ordering the ‘real tests.’ This was medicine. Today, increasingly, it is treated as something quaint, inefficient, or unnecessary.” (09/13/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/medicine-has-forgotten-how-to-touch-the-patient/
- Trial By Jury: In Praise of the Lone Holdout
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“American law recognizes the right of a jury to acquit a defendant ‘in the teeth of the facts.’ We call it ‘jury nullification’: The jury decides that even though the defendant did X, the law forbidding X is wrong, at least in that case. Prosecutors hate that because they prefer convictions at any cost. Judges hate it, because they like to be in charge and don’t think anyone should be free to ignore their ‘instructions.’ The lone juror in the Clancy case is a flip side of jury nullification. He decided, based on the evidence he’d seen and the testimony he’d heard, that she was guilty, and he wasn’t going to let himself get bullied into saying otherwise. The effect isn’t as broad as acquittal — the prosecutor is free to bring the case again — but it’s the same principle. Jurors get to vote their conclusions and their conscience. Period. That’s important.” (09/13/26)
https://knappster.blogspot.com/2026/09/garrison-center-op-ed-trial-by-jury-in.html
- You Don’t Have “2nd Amendment Rights.” You Just Have Rights.
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin“Millions of people today refer to their rights by amendment number, as if they get them from the Bill of Rights. They talk about their ‘2nd Amendment rights,’ but they have it completely backwards. The founders didn’t write the words as a permission slip for the people. They aren’t a ‘gun permit.’ They are a restraining order for government: hands off our natural rights. There is no clearer restraining order than the 2nd Amendment. It doesn’t grant a right. It recognizes one that already exists, and issues a direct command to government.” (09/12/260
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2026/09/12/you-dont-have-2nd-amendment-rights-you-just-have-rights/
- Politicians See Opportunity in Data Center Panic
Source: Reason
by Steven Greenhut“Politicians generally operate within their partisan bubbles, as they stake out poll-tested positions that conform to the political lean of their districts and the priorities of their party. Once in a while, though, an issue so upsets the public that it transcends partisanship. Then all bets are off, as lawmakers try desperately to placate those proverbial ‘peasants with pitchforks.’ The latest example involves the construction of data centers. Voters, and hence politicians on the political left and right, are incensed about the construction of large facilities that house computers, networking equipment, servers, and storage systems that support the tech economy and the growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI). It’s hard to understand the level of upset given that these facilities are necessary to power industries that power our economy and fund state budgets.” (09/11/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/11/politicians-see-opportunity-in-data-center-panic/
- President Trump’s new strategy on the Iran war: Pretending there isn’t one
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
by the editorial board“During a recent cable news appearance, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed no American lives had been lost in the Iran war, an error he blamed on confusion with President Donald Trump’s earlier invasion of Venezuela. And perhaps it is difficult to keep one’s wars straight in an administration that has attacked seven countries in less than two years. But while Lutnick’s claim was horribly wrong in fact, it was an accurate reflection of the administration’s consistently reprehensible diminishment of the costly war it started more than six months ago without congressional authorization or public support. The day after the secretary’s gaffe, Vice President JD Vance denied the very existence of the conflict, telling reporters, ‘I wouldn’t call it a war’ …. The day after that, Trump himself dismissed the war as ‘small potatoes’…” (09/13/26)
- How much more embarrassment can the Republican Party take?
Source: USA Today
by Rex Huppke“If you’re a sane Republican – and yes, I do believe such people exist – the past week had to be monumentally embarrassing. President Donald Trump, who’s terrible at pretending to be a conservative, tried to bribe U.S. voters by saying every adult would receive a $5,000 ‘Trump Dividend’ if Republicans win the midterm elections. If it weren’t a complete con, that would cost about $1.3 trillion at a time when the national debt has surpassed $40 trillion. So much for fiscal conservatism. The president made the embarrassing kickback offer Sept. 9 during an equally embarrassing Republican midterm convention that centered around idolatry of Trump. At the event in Dallas, he implored GOP voters: ‘Pretend that I am on the ballot.’ Does that make you feel good if you’re a Republican?” (09/13/26)
- Fighting the Oligarchy’s Stranglehold on the Media
Source: The Progressive
by Victor Pickard“The Trump 2.0 era has intensified a deeply entrenched pathology in the American media system: concentrated corporate ownership. During less perilous times, legitimate concerns about a few corporations capturing so much of our news and information have often been dismissed as conspiracy theories and paranoia. But Donald Trump and his coterie of plutocrats have made our media oligarchy problem acutely evident and impossible to ignore. Constant controversies, from government and corporate censorship of television comedians like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert to the algorithmic and editorial abuses of Elon Musk’s X and Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post, remind us why media ownership holds such high stakes for any semblance of democracy. Meanwhile, rightwing nepotistic dynasties like the Murdochs and the Ellisons hold inordinate influence over what millions of people can see, hear, and read in their daily media.” (09/11/26)
https://progressive.org/magazine/how-to-fight-media-oligarchy-pickard-20260904/
- Can ‘America First’ survive Trump’s war-first presidency?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Blaise Malley“In a Thursday address at the GOP midterm convention that exalted President Donald Trump and demeaned his opponents as ‘extremists who openly hate our nation,’ Vice President JD Vance hardly spoke about foreign policy. He did not mention the war in Iran directly, and he only brought up foreign policy as an example of an issue that divides the party’s base. He urged voters not to ‘throw the baby out with the bathwater’ because ‘you happen to disagree with us on a policy issue here or there.’ The acknowledgement of foreign policy as a divisive issue in the MAGA coalition is a stark retreat for Vance, who staked his 2023 endorsement of Trump on the fact that ‘he started no wars despite enormous pressure from his own party and even members of his own administration,’ framing the president’s America First record as a much-needed deviation from decades of bipartisan hawkishness.” (09/11/26)
- Osama Bin Laden Won
Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse“Bin Laden’s plan was to trap the U.S. in expensive, foreign quagmire wars that would trigger a domestic economic collapse. It was patterned on the strategy that the local mujahideen, he and other foreign fighters, and the U.S. and its allies had used to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Not only does bin Laden’s strategy continue apace long after his 2011 death, but it also spawned an even more effective means of destroying America from within. Bin Laden’s attacks turned the U.S. government into an engine for the destruction of America, inducing it to implement policies that have devastated the country and immiserated its people.” (09/11/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/11/bin-laden-september-11-trump-america/
- No, We’re Not Having The “It’s Not Genocide” Conversation Anymore
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone“It’s so undignified how Zionists keep trying to resurrect the ‘stop calling it a genocide’ conversation about Gaza when every relevant human rights group on earth says that’s exactly what it is. The latest effort to revive this long-dead debate comes in the form of a letter signed by 5,000 high-profile Israel supporters like Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, Zionist megadonor Haim Saban, and neoconservative war criminal Elliott Abrams. ‘We the undersigned are outraged and sickened by the latest blood libel to be inflicted on the Jewish people: the lie that Israel committed ‘genocide’ in Gaza. We reject this accusation with contempt,’ the letter says, followed by the usual mountains of hasbara verbiage.” (09/12/26)
- Unfair Gains?
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mark Nayler“After another summer of heatwaves and wildfires, Spain is petitioning the EU to create a climate adaptation fund. In a letter sent to the EU’s climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, the Spanish minister for the ecological transition Sara Aagesen Muñoz said that Europe needs a blanket strategy to help its member states cope with climate change, and to mobilize the ‘resources needed to deliver the necessary investments.’ The mobilizing strategy favored by Muñoz is a permanent windfall tax on energy companies, many of which have cashed in on higher gas and oil prices resulting from the wars in Ukraine and Iran. … The fairness of windfall taxes, of course, is one of the most questionable things about them. As the Portuguese finance ministry said when introducing its windfall levy, the elevated profits of oil and gas providers this year have resulted ‘solely from external market conditions.’ So why punish them?” (09/11/26)
- Applying liberal arts learning in a changing world
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff“New and returning students have been flocking to college campuses across the United States this month. And, at several institutions – such as Brandeis University, just outside Boston – they are encountering a higher education reinvention that’s rapidly picking up pace: the concept of ‘applied’ humanities or interdisciplinary and skills-focused liberal arts learning. For Brandeis and similar institutions, changing demographics (fewer college-age students overall) and budget shortfalls are an immediate impetus for this shift. But underlying such pragmatic considerations is also a growing willingness within higher education to better align with the needs of a changing society and economy. And that signals both humility and introspection – qualities integral to the humanities, which prize curiosity and the willingness to change and expand thinking and reasoning. ‘Higher ed shouldn’t be an ivory tower concept,’ according to Sonya Christian, chancellor of the California Community Colleges system, the nation’s largest.” (09/11/26)
- In Defense of the Insanity Defense and the Lindsey Clancy Jury
Source: StephanKinsella.com
by Stephan Kinsella“Many on the right think the near-acquittal is an indictment of women or of feminism, even though two of the three male jurors also favored acquittal. As I see it, there are several problems with the take by the right and some libertarians here. First, from the fact that Clancy killed her children, they conclude that it’s obvious she should be found guilty and imprisoned for life. This shows no awareness of the complex nature of criminal trials.” (09/12/26)
https://stephankinsella.com/2026/09/in-defense-of-the-insanity-defense-and-the-lindsey-clancy-jury/
- Mirrors of 9/11
Source: Law & Liberty
by Rachel Lu“To many Americans, al-Qaeda’s brutality seemed to represent both a wake-up call and a challenge. Because they are used to sitting atop the geopolitical hierarchy, Americans don’t necessarily think all that much about what lies beneath. It turns out that the rest of the world hates us, or so many concluded in the wake of 9/11. From that ostensible insight flowed the challenge: Are they right to hate us? Have we whiffed on our global leadership? Are we the tyrannical oppressors of our age? Across the intervening years, those questions have played out in the American consciousness like a bruising taunt heard in childhood that one can never quite forget.” (09/11/26)
- “Never Forget” Is Bad Spiritual Advice
Source: Common Dreams
by Yahia Lababidi“‘The well-prepared heart has hope during adversity and fear during prosperity’ — Erica McAlpine … Twenty-five years, and the day keeps getting bigger instead of smaller. Three thousand dead in a single morning, then some multiple of that across the wars launched in its wake, then a shifting count out of Gaza that outpaces anyone’s will to keep totaling it. I did not expect grief to go on collecting interest this long. I did not expect to still be bitter, on a date this rehearsed, in a country this practiced at looking away. I have written some version of this before. On some earlier September, I posted this: ‘#NeverForget is bad spiritual advice. Especially, when one has exacted revenge that far exceeds initial loss. To spell it out, honor your dead but remember, too, the 100,000+ Iraqi civilian noncombatants murdered in a vengeful, unjust ‘war’.'” (09/12/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/never-forget-bad-advice
- Was 9/11 a New Pearl Harbor?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“By now, the evidence overwhelmingly establishes that President Franklin Roosevelt wanted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to take place. He desperately wanted to intervene in the war against Nazi Germany, but he faced a virtually insurmountable obstacle — the American people, most of whom firmly opposed U.S. entry into a second world war. … It would be difficult to say that U.S. officials wanted the 9/11 attacks to happen, given that there is no evidence to support it. But there is also no doubt that U.S. officials persisted in a course of action that they knew was likely to produce a massive terrorist attack on American soil.” (09/11/26)
- Will Trump Accounts Make Every Kid a Millionaire?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller“The $1,000 seed can grow substantially, but seven-figure wealth requires decades of compounding, continued contributions, and strong market returns.” (09/11/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/will-trump-accounts-make-every-kid-a-millionaire/
- The Generation 9/11 Made
Source: The American Conservative
by Nic Rowan“I have always said that my life began on September 11, 2001. I was three years old at the time, and I was seated in front of the television in my parent’s basement. At this point, I think both towers had been hit. In any case, the news channel played the second plane’s impact over and over again, until my mother, horrified, turned it off. It is my first memory. The attacks that day changed the shape of American life, but only for those who remember them. For those who were too young to know what was happening—or who were not yet born—it is just history. Twenty-five years on, remembrance or nonremembrance is still one of the most useful tools for understanding generational divergence in opinion on the world 9/11 created.” (09/11/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-generation-9-11-made/
- 25 Years and America Still Stands Tall
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis“September 11, 2001, is one of those days in American history that ‘will live in infamy’. Just like the Japanese on December 7, 1941, who thought they could strike a mortal blow against the United States by their dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor, Osama bin Laden believed he could so weaken America, with his attack on multiple sites on the East Coast, that the country might never fully recover from it. The Japanese were wrong in 1941 and found out, pretty quickly, that they were wrong. Osama bin Laden was wrong, too. Twenty-five years later, America is still the strongest nation in the world, with the most powerful military that can humble a nation using only a fraction of its power, and an economy that remains the envy of the world. Millions upon millions of people still migrate to America because America is…well, it’s America.” (09/12/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/09/12/25-years-and-america-still-stands-tall-n2682860
- Foreign Policy Gnosticism: The Appeal to the Black Box of “Our Leaders Know More”
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter“Foreign policy Gnosticism is fallacious and is a debating trick, whether done consciously or unconsciously. It is an assertion to avoid logic, argumentation, and evidence disguised as intellectual humility. The opponent wants you to adopt a position of intellectual humility while they enjoy an undeserved sense of certainty based on the informal fallacy of appeal to ignorance. While other evidence certainly may exist in favor of the other side, that has to be demonstrated, and—even if it is later proven to be the case—it still does not erase the fallacy. The existence of inaccessible information does not establish the content, reliability, interpretation, or implications of that information.” (09/11/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/foreign-policy-gnosticism-appeal-black-box-our-leaders-know-more
- Think Twice About Age Verification
Source: Persuasion
by Jeffrey Cieslikowski“Age-verification seems like a simple fix. And it is often driven by a genuine concern for kids’ safety and well-being. But it comes at a cost: age-verification threatens our anonymous speech online. As trendy as age-verification might be, it is worth taking a moment, in the year of America’s 250th anniversary, to remind ourselves of the deep history of anonymous speech in the United States—a speech right that can easily be underestimated or denigrated.” (09/11/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/think-twice-about-age-verification
- Donald Trump Wants to Bury America With Him
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod“Wednesday night in Dallas, Donald Trump declared that the 2026 midterms would determine ‘if our country stumbles at the starting gate of our next 250 years or surges forward and never looks back.’ That is how he began his long, rambling convention speech, promising to ‘leave the world in our dust.’ But far from a display of power and forward-looking ideas, Trump’s speech came off more like a sermon from Jonestown. And observers noticed. My own overriding thought was: ‘This speech was like some sort of performance art piece of a live entombing of a mad king and his most loyal followers.'” (09/11/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/donald-trump-wants-to-bury-america-with-him/
- I Spy vs. They Spy
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“There is an argument making the rounds: Flock cameras are good because cop cams have proven themselves so useful. More transparency! Flock cameras, you may remember, are the traffic cameras integrally linked to an artificial intelligence that tracks car license plates (and thus the cars, and drivers) that come within the cameras’ field of vision. The company contracts with cities and other governments. To surveil us. You know, ‘to protect us from crime.'” (09/11/26)
- Germany’s Far Right, China, and Trump
Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner“The 44 percent support for the neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the small east German state of Saxony-Anhalt has produced great anxiety about the causes of a new turn to fascism in the nation that produced Hitler. Call me an economic determinist, but for the most part it’s the economy, stupid. And absent drastic changes in the global economic order and the role of China, Germany and the West are headed for much worse. This story comes in three parts. Part One: Hitler came to power due to the collapsed German economy following the draconian terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. During the post–World War II boom, with over-full employment and the return of prosperity, there was virtually no support for neofascists.” (09/11/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/09/11/germanys-far-right-china-and-trump/
- Centers for Deception Control
Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley“What is the CDC’s secret agency, the Epidemic Intelligence Sevice, actually up to?” (09/11/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/11/centers-for-deception-control/
- Why States Nationalize
Source: Liberalism.org
by Vincent Geloso“Why do governments take control of entire sectors of the economy? The textbook answer falls into what many economists call ‘public interest’ reasoning. But what really happens turns out to be more complex than what the profession has so far understood.” (09/11/26)
- Bono’s Hard-Won Lesson About Poverty
Source: The Daily Economy
by Anne Bradley‘Aid may relieve immediate suffering, but only productivity, enterprise, and strong institutions can conquer poverty for good.” (09/11/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/bonos-hard-won-lesson-about-poverty/
- 25 Years After 9/11, America Still Ignores Blowback
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey“The attacks were not about hating our freedom. They were the predictable result of intervention. The Patriot Act then stripped liberty at home.” (09/11/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/25-years-after-911-america-still
- The Deep State’s Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
Source: American Greatness
by Jay Rogers“Last Wednesday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent FBI Director Kash Patel a letter demanding every document connected to an operation codenamed Round River. If you haven’t heard of it, that’s understandable; it’s the sequel nobody promoted, and I’ll get to it. I’ve spent part of my career testifying as an expert witness on fiduciary duty, the branch of law that punishes people for betraying the trust placed in them. Measured by that standard, Round River isn’t merely disinformation; it’s a breach of duty so complete that in my industry it would end a career and trigger a bar complaint. In Washington, it’s earned a strongly worded letter. That’s the whole scandal in one sentence: the deep state keeps getting caught, and nobody ever pays for it.” (09/11/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/11/the-deep-states-get-out-of-jail-free-card/
- “We Want that the Whole Land Be Jewish”
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman“[W]hen secular Zionism arose in the late 19th century, which proposed an ‘ingathering of exiles’ (that is, virtually the entire Jewish diaspora), most observant Jews opposed twisting their religion into a nationalistic movement in search of statehood. They feared that a state would replace God and Torah. They also believed that a Jewish state would endanger their emancipated status in their home countries and require domination of the Palestinian Arabs. The anti-Zionists’ prophecy proved correct. In light of the Holocaust, which changed the presentation of Zionism from an ingathering project to a refugee program, Jewish anti-Zionism faded but did not disappear.” (09/11/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-we-want-that-the-whole-land
- Twenty-Five Years Later, We Must Rebuild
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson“More than a third of the U.S. population today is under 30 years of age. This is the only America they ever have known. They may have seen the new World Trade Center, which is, in a kind of perverse victory for continuity in aesthetics if nothing else, about as ugly as the old one, but its symbolic status is mostly lost on them. Those of us who are older want to tell them that this is not normal, but, of course, it is we who are the outliers, we graybeards with our books and our memories. This is not the ‘new normal’—it is just normal, from the wider historical point of view. What we should be trying to make them understand is not that this is not normal but that normal is not good enough.” (09/11/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/september-11-politics-history-unity/
- A 5-year-old’s neighborhood walk shouldn’t be a crime
Source: Washington Post
by Lenore Skenazy“When Karyann Parkinson’s 5-year-old son, Sam, asked if he could walk about a half mile to their neighborhood pond to collect goose feathers, she didn’t have a hard time saying yes. It was June. They’d walked the route before, including that morning. Her son is mature, and their surroundings are part of what the homeowners association describes as a ‘secure, multi-generational gated community.’ The risks were low, and yet Karyann is fast becoming famous for what came next. … Thanks to Karyann’s transgression — trusting her son — she was placed on Virginia’s child abuse and neglect registry for seven years. In court, she was found guilty of ‘contributing to the delinquency of a minor’ — a Class 1 misdemeanor — and given a six-month suspended jail sentence.” (09/11/26)
- 9/11’s Aftereffect: The Constitutional Accountability Abyss
Source: Antiwar.com
by Patrick Eddington“Over the last several weeks in the lead up to the 25th anniversary of al Qaeda’s attack on the U.S., I’ve had American and foreign journalists ask me the same question: how did 9/11 change America? My answer has generally been some version of this: 9/11 didn’t change us, we allowed it to change us, and in doing so critically damaged our very own political way of life.” (09/11/26)
- Don’t be deceived by the dodges of lefty Dems like James Talarico
Source: New York Post
by staff“James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, is rushing to escape his on-the-record gender insanity — but it’s clearly just a dodge, part of lefty candidates’ nationwide playbook to claim to embrace ‘normalcy’. Talarico has unambiguously claimed there are six genders and that God is nonbinary; as a state legislator he voted against bills to keep biological boys out of girls’ sports and to end gender-reassignment treatments for minors. Now he tells Fox News those six-gender comments ‘missed the mark’; he insists he supports a trans-athlete ban and a national ban on gender surgeries and hormones for kids. Has he seen the light of reason and started to actually follow the science on the issue? Don’t bet on it.” (09/12/26)
- Scott Horton on The Kyle Anzalone Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Bush says America didn’t overreact after 9/11. We don’t let that pass. Kyle Anzalone sits down with Scott Horton to walk through what Washington knew before the attacks, what it chose to ignore, and how a moment that demanded focused justice became an open-ended Global War on Terror.” (09/13/26)
- Unattended Baggage, episode 356
Source: Unattended Baggage
“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and AI feels fine.” (09/12/26)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-356-its-the-end-of-the-world
- Pink Flame of Liberty, 09/12/26
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Judicial Committee Decision: LPNH Disaffiliation AFFIRMED (Moulton Opinion).” (09/12/26)
- Free Talk Live, 09/12/26
Source: Free Talk Live
“Jay discusses giving kids a head start in life by keeping them off of tablets and teaching them skills :: Dave Ridley came out with an audiobook :: Caller lost use of legs after meth-related car accident and gained a new meaning for his life :: 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center caused by the FBI :: TSA and Flock have killed the fourth amendment :: Correcting your citizenship status to take your rights back from the feds :: Lindsay Clancy, should her drs be accountable? :: Jury rights and red flag laws :: Just asking questions about the Holocaust :: Riley got 5% of the vote in his state rep run :: SignalTrace, new business like Flock :: Green language the language of synchronicity :: They don’t listen to the constitution anyway :: VT has fewer people than NH but more homeless :: 2026-09-12 Hosts: Bonnie, Jay Noone, Riley O’Bill.” (09/12/26)
- Serious Trouble, 09/11/26
Source: Serious Trouble
“A Massachusetts judge could not cajole the Lindsay Clancy jury into a verdict; an ICE agent faces federal charges for lying about a shooting; Kyrsten Sinema faces trial for stealing a man.” (09/11/26)
- The Good Fight, 09/12/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Judith Dada on the Rise of the AfD.” (09/12/26)
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/11/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Tailspins as His New Plot to Rig Midterms Is Mocked Even on Fox.” (09/11/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/215305/trump-tailspins-new-plot-rig-midterms-mocked-even-fox
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 09/11/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Why Understanding Inflation Is Deliberately Difficult: With Guest Economist Phillip Patrick.” (09/11/26)
- The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 09/11/26
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Azam Ahmed On The Aftermath Of 9/11.” (09/11/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/azam-ahmed-on-the-aftermath-of-911
- Reasonably Optimistic, 09/11/26
Source: Washington Post
“This medieval revolt has a warning for today.” (09/11/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/this-medieval-revolt-has-a-warning-for-today/
- Nonzero, 09/11/26
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The Week in AI that Changed the World | Robert Wright & Liron Shapira.” (09/11/26)
- Freakonomics Radio, episode 686
Source: Freakonomics
“Why Is It So Hard to Find an NFL Quarterback?” (09/11/26)
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-an-nfl-quarterback/
- Parallax Views w/ JG Michael, 09/11/26
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“Deep Cover, Shallow Graves w/ Ralph Pezullo.” (09/11/26)
- Soho Forum Debate: Are We Winning the Trade Wars?
Source: Reason
“Economists Stephen Moore and Scott Lincicome debate tariffs as a foreign policy tool.” (09/11/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/09/11/are-we-winning-the-trade-wars/
- The Tom Woods Show, episode 2795
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Neocons Refuse to Die.” (09/11/26)
- The Anarchist Experience, episode 597
Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Rich and Riley discuss the Anniversary of 9/11, Karmic justice, and Trump’s $5,000 bribe to voters.” (09/11/26)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/the-anarchist-experience-597/
- The Corbett Report, 09/11/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“What About the 9/11 Money Trail?” (09/11/26)
- The Fifth Column, episode 574
Source: The Fifth Column
“A quarter-century later, the guys revisit a moment when everyone was certain about something and almost nobody was normal.” (09/11/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-things-we-thought-after-911-574
- The Political Orphanage, 09/10/26
Source: The Political Orphanage
“How Do Other Countries do Healthcare?” (09/10/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/how-do-other-countries-do-healthcare
- Rising, 09/10/26
Source: The Hill
“Will AI kill all humans?!” (09/10/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6071503-rising-september-10-2026/